Scrum Master, Mid

Booz Allen Hamilton•Lexington Park, MD

About The Position

As a Scrum Master, you’re passionate about outcomes and supporting a development team that’s modernizing critical projects. You know the importance of Agile best practices and how to combat challenges early to get work done. We need a Scrum Master like you to create solutions that’ll help us impact defense and national security industries. On our team, you’ll apply your functional knowledge to coach a development team to focus on sprint goals, ensuring the project is successfully progressed. You’ll apply basic Scrum principles and concepts to resolve routine problems. Using tools like Jira, you’ll strengthen sustainable process improvements to help your team execute Agile Ceremonies that lead to functional products for the client. In this role, you’ll directly impact an engineering team as a Scrum Master to facilitate Agile best practices and mentor new team members on Agile processes. You will facilitate sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives. You'll support the management team in communicating with clients and stakeholders to manage expectations. You will collect and write detailed user stories and work with the team and client to identify associated tasks and acceptance criteria. You'll analyze business processes and work with the project team to implement and improve processes. You will maintain a product backlog, support QA and requirement validation, meet with various stakeholders to discuss needs, and provide suggestions during stakeholder interviews and requirements gathering. You'll provide documentation for new efforts, including level of effort analysis, plans or timelines, requirements documents, and other required documentation. Work with us as we strengthen operational excellence for the NAVAIR market. Join us. The world can’t wait.

Requirements

2+ years of experience as the Scrum Master of an engineering team
Experience with Jira
Experience managing and integrating Jira boards for multiple teams under one project
Experience leading client delivery engagements and working with senior-level client management
Experience teaching basic Agile framework concepts to technical teams
Ability to obtain a Secret clearance
Bachelor's degree
Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certification

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of project management frameworks
Knowledge of DoD and systems engineering processes
Possession of excellent problem-solving skills, to provide technical assistance to IT development teams
Possession of excellent interpersonal skills, to successfully interact with clients, engineers, and managers
Possession of excellent verbal and written communication skills
Secret clearance

Responsibilities

Facilitate sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
Support the management team in communicating with clients and stakeholders to manage expectations.
Collect and write detailed user stories and work with the team and client to identify associated tasks and acceptance criteria.
Analyze business processes and work with the project team to implement and improve processes.
Maintain a product backlog, support QA and requirement validation, meet with various stakeholders to discuss needs, and provide suggestions during stakeholder interviews and requirements gathering.
Provide documentation for new efforts, including level of effort analysis, plans or timelines, requirements documents, and other required documentation.